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Nature Medicine 11, 3 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nm0105-3b
US AIDS chief altered report on nevirapine safety risks
Emily Singer1
- Boston
An AIDS drug used to block transmission between mothers and babies in Africa may be more dangerous than health officials knew. According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, the chief of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIDS Division, Edmund Tramont, changed a report on the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to minimize safety concerns.
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